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Thu, Dec 16th – 10pm to 2 am ♫ Le Jazz / Ruby’s Elixir

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Each Sunday The Blvd offers “Jazz At Lunch”, for your listening pleasure. This week will serve as Mark Moultrup on Keys and Vocals, with Stephen Bucholtz on Drums.

Hiram Hazley & Le Jazz imaginable possible choices one of the very important perfect imaginable Jazz Musicians Tampa Bay has to provide. This is a “Straight away-ahead” Jazz group of workers with the flexibility to play combine other forms and feels of tune to satisfy any jazz enthusiast’s. Greats like, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Oscar Pettiford, Miles Davis, and Paul Chambers, are merely various the Artists we try to emulate.

Hiram Hazley is the Director of the Hazley Faculty of Song in Tampa Florida.

Hiram Hazley, vocals, electric and upright basses, keys and drums…was a member of the fabulous Excellent good friend Miles Express (Jimi Hendrix’s Drummer), moreover performed with Rocky Ruckman and the Beat Heathens (Tampa Bay Electric Jazz and Rock Band), along with his private group(s) Magic & Fencewalk (each and every “dance” bands) and Le Jazz (straight-ahead jazz), Hazley moreover performed at Busch Gardens (for two decades) as an entertainer along with infrequently serving to the Tune Director Desmond Boone with different displays, and is devoted to presentation and production. He is a full- ranged musician and is in recent times showing inside the Tampa Bay area in conjunction with his aforementioned groups and educating at his studio “Hazley Productions” where he moreover teaches music.

Hiram started out on the trumpet at the age of twelve (inspired then via Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Oscar Brashear) then began to evolve proper right into a bassist when he was hired as a vocalist (that needed to play trumpet and bass) at Busch Gardens. Alternatively forward of in fact getting “paid to play”, he attended St. Petersburg Junior School (learning beneath Chris Types), Bethune-Cookman School (now known as Bethune-Cookman Faculty) learning beneath Sylvester Pope, then spent a yearr at the New The town School learning beneath Ed Summerlin, where he performed in smalls groups directed via John Lewis of the Stylish Jazz Quartet. Since then, Hiram has shared the ideas from his massive tales and passed them without delay to his bands (specifically productions and presentation) which clearly separates his bands from any other bands. Learn extra ...

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Bobby Weir and Sun Ra Arkestra to headline A Great Night in Harlem fundraiser for the Jazz Foundation of America

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The March 28 event will take place at Harlem’s Apollo.

Bobby Weir and Sun Ra Arkestra will headline A Great Night in Harlem fundraiser for the Jazz Foundation of America.

The annual benefit will take place March 28 at The Apollo in Harlem. Its name plays off of A Great Day in Harlem, the classic 1958 Art Kane black-and-white photograph for Esquire that featured more than 50 jazz musicians seated on and surrounding a brownstone stoop.

The event, with Steve Jordan as musical director, will also feature a tribute to drummer Max Roach, who would have turned 100 in January, with Charles Tolliver, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Cables, Billy Harper and Rufus Reid, as well as the Titans of Jazz Drums with Al Foster, Billy Hart and Louis Hayes.

The evening will honor Richard Parsons with JFA’s Dr. Billy Taylor Humanitarian Award. Parsons is the former chairman of Citigroup and former chairman/CEO of Time Warner.

Parsons is stepping down after 15 years as JFA chairman and will be succeeded by JFA president Jarrett Lilien. Board member Dr. Daveed D. Frazier will become president of the JFA board of directors. Last year’s event honored Clarence Avant, Dave Grusin and Charles Lloyd at Los Angeles’ Vibrato Grill Jazz.

Proceeds from the benefit fund JFA programs that provide housing assistance, pro-bono healthcare, disaster relief and direct financial support to musicians and their families. For the past 35 years, JFA has been assisting not only jazz musicians, but artists in blues, roots and R&B genres.

For more information on tickets for the March 28 event, go to JFA@eventassociatesinc.com For individual concert tickets, go to jazzfoundation.org/gala2024. 

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Frank Portolese – ‘Chicago jazz guitar alive and well in Southwest Florida’

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Frank Portolese Chicago jazz guitar alive and well in Southwest Florida

Frank Portolese was my first guitar teacher. Until today, I have learned that his musical journey included studying privately with the great Jack Cecchini for five years, and learned the instrument along jazz Improvisation with Joe Daley and voice with Bill Rush. Our gaze in life is often stifled by the cards that we are dealt. ~ David Moore

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Joshua Redman – jazz saxophonist that speaks the language of love & art

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Joshua Redman is without any doubt an acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists that has emerged in the decade of the 1990s. The son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff, Joahua was blessed with influences at an early age to a variety of musics (jazz, classical, rock, soul, Indian, Indonesian, Middle-Eastern, African) and instruments (recorder, piano, guitar, gatham, gamelan). His first instrument was the clarinet at age nine. Later, Joshua switched to what became his primary instrument of expression, the tenor saxophone, only one year later. Like many jazz artists, Joshua Redman was influenced by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and his father, Dewey Redman, as well as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, The Police and Led Zeppelin drew Joshua more deeply into music. But although Joshua loved playing the saxophone and was a dedicated member of the award-winning Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble and Combo from 1983-86, academics were always his first priority, and he never seriously considered becoming a professional musician.

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